Howzat! Millionaire Ben Goldsmith's estranged wife Kate is caught slipping out of the Knightsbridge home of rapper Jay Electronica while her husband plays charity cricket match just streets away in Chelsea

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In stark contrast, just a short walk
away at Burton Court, multi-millionaire Mr Goldsmith was smartly dressed
for the cricket in immaculately pressed white flannels, without so much
as a grass stain in sight.

Mr Goldsmith appeared in public for the first time since his marriage split was revealed

He completed his outfit with a club
cap as he captained his side in front of a star-studded crowd at the
annual Chelsea garden party for Flannels for Heroes, which raises money
for injured servicemen.

Before declaring a truce last Friday,
the Goldsmiths had played out an increasingly bitter marital row on
Twitter over Mrs Goldsmith’s alleged affair with the rapper, whose real
name is Timothy Elpadaro Thedford.

Police arrested Mr Goldsmith, 31,
youngest son of the late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, at the
couple’s £20million family home in Kensington earlier this month on
suspicion of actual bodily harm.

It reportedly followed a
confrontation between the Eton-educated financier, who inherited
£300million after his father’s death, and his wife over explicit texts
and emails between her and Jay Electronica.

Mr Goldsmith was released without
charge after accepting a caution and later announced he was filing for
divorce on the grounds of adultery.

But the altercation prompted a
torrent of angry posts on Twitter from the couple, with Mr Goldsmith
branding his 29-year-old wife ‘appalling’ over her alleged affair.

Heading for divorce: Ben with Kate, who he has branded 'appalling' over her
relationship with a rapper

Rapper Jay Electronica who is believed to be having an affair with Kate Goldsmith leaving a flat in Cadogan Square, London

In response, Mrs Goldsmith, who was
left £18million after the suicide of her banker father Amschel
Rothschild, posted 14 extraordinary messages defending her behaviour.

In them, the mother-of-three claimed
her ‘life had been saved’ by the 35-year-old rapper, whom she manages
through her label Roundtable Records, and appeared to accuse her husband
of cheating on her.

Star: Jay Electronica, left with his ex
girlfriend Erykah Badu, with whom he has a child, and performing on
stage during The Big Chill Festival, last year, right, alongside
Hollywood actress Lucy Liu in the band Bullitts

Row: Kate Rothschild had tweeted that hip-hop star Jay Electronica, pictured, had 'saved her life' after her husband branded her 'appalling' for her relationship with the musician

Kate Rothschild posts Instagram picture of her children on a plane to Twitter, which was then given a 'like' by Jay Electronica (see small pic bottom right)

Kate Rothschild posts cryptic tweet about being in a 'talespin' in first message since husband blasted her over relationship with rapper

Kate Rothschild took to Twitter to defend herself in the latest move in the battle between the estranged spouses

Backing from women: Mr Goldsmith has been deluged with messages of support on Twitter since it was revealed he had split from wife Kate

A ROTHSCHILD'S AFFAIR WITH A GIANT OF JAZZ

It is not the first time that a Rothschild heiress has put everything on the line to pursue an edgy musician.

The
alleged affair between Kate Goldsmith and rapper Jay Electronica echoes
that of her great aunt, who left her husband and five children to live
with a jazz artist in the 1950s.

In both cases, their family and friends were mystified and shocked by their behaviour.

Kathleen
Annie Pannonica Rothschild, the Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter, who was
nicknamed Nica, first became infatuated by pianist Thelonious Monk
after being introduced to jazz by her brother, Victor Rothschild – Mrs
Goldsmith’s grandfather.

She
moved to New York and became consumed by the jazz scene, where she was
known as ‘The Baroness’. There she helped to support many struggling
musicians, arranging for rehearsal space and transporting them to clubs
in her Bentley.

By
1954 her marriage to a wealthy French diplomat and war hero, Baron
Jules de Koenigswarte, was over and she lost custody of her children.

She
later hit the headlines after Charlie Parker, the jazz saxophonist and
composer, died in her hotel suite – a scandal that cast a dark shadow
over the rest of her life.

However, her relationship with Monk was to endure for three decades until his death in 1982.

Monk
– who would go on to become a giant of 20th century music – would later
move into her New Jersey home, which served as a sanctuary for ageing
jazz musicians.

Bitter feud: Mr Goldsmith hunting in the English countryside with rapper Jay Electronica, who has been exchanging messages with the financier's estranged wife